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supabadbro asks:
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For the sake of arguement lets say the roles were reversed and the stripper was white and the accused was the basketball team, would there have been any arrest by now? Would they have waited to search the so-called scene of the crime? Would they have waited for DNA tests? How would this thing be played out in the media.
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assuming you hypothetically intend to ask whether - for consistency's sake 3 members - of the african-american basketball team were to be accused by the white stripper of having raped her would there be an arrest by now. using the same circumstances, that (1) the accuser is unable to identify which of the team members committed the assult, (2) there is no physical evidence that ANY of the african-american team members committed the assult, and (3) where there will typically be found a trace of DNA residue to identify the perpetrator, which material was not present, i will now ask you a question: which team member do you place under arrest? who would they have arrested prior to the DNA test results being performed?
on to your question asking how things would have been played out in the media:
we substitute "white" stripper with arrest history and vanishing support from second stripper who attended the party. we also substitute "black" basketball players on scholarship to an expensive, prestigious university having an "alarmingly" extensive arrest history for playing loud music, excessive drinking and even misusing a debit card to buy food.
i will stipulate, if you can answer which black students should have been arrested in this scenario, in a way which is different than the existing situation, then i will agree with you, there would have been a difference.
my bet on this game is that you can't